Integrating Projects Working Around An Open Database Of Published Music Recordings: a call for collaboration
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Authors Biographies: Toni Sant is Associate Professor of Digital Curation at the University of Salford in the UK.
Keywords: digital curation, music, wikidata
TL;DR: This is a call for academic researchers to collaborate on the development of an integrated data structure and workflow model for published music recordings via Wikidata and/or Wikibase.
Abstract: Outside the immediate purview of the expansive WikiProject Music on Wikipedia, there are at least three other projects relating to capturing structured data about published music recordings through Wikidata, Wikibase, and other Wikimedia platforms. One is the AfroSounds project, led by Oreoluwa (User:ReoMartins) from Nigeria since 2022. Another is the proposal by Daniel Antal (presented at the 2024 CEE Meeting) to build a music data sharing space with Wikibase starting with music published in Slovakia, inspired by the Luxembourg Shared Authority File project. And the third is the work of the Malta Music Memory Project, developed by the author with the M3P Foundation since 2009, using a MediaWiki site and Wikidata. This is a call for other academic researchers to collaborate on the development of an integrated data structure and workflow model – including possibilities for automation through bots – for published music recordings that is applicable to Wikidata. The aim is to enable systematic data gathering on a global level, building on existing datasets currently held by music publishing platforms and organisations who seek to make it more findable. Considerations for restrictive database rights that sometimes preclude integration into Wikimedia's open knowledge ecosystem, may require staging via Wikibase, rather than Wikidata, in the first instance.
Format: Lightning talk (5 minutes presentation)
Submission Number: 22
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